China’s criticism of NATO exhibits its dangerous multipolar ambitions

The Chinese Communist Party had a busy week at the United Nations. At the International Court of Justice, its envoy defended Hamas’s terrorism as a legitimate “armed struggle” against “colonialism.” And in a U.N. Security Council meeting, China sided with Russia to urge the United States to stop supporting Ukraine. The CCP has been taking any shot it gets to trash the West on the world stage. 

China’s U.N. ambassador, Zhang Jun, engaged in even more anti-Western animus on Friday with a series of bitter comments about NATO. “We encourage NATO to do some soul-searching, come out of the cage of Cold War mentality, and refrain from acting as an agent of trouble instigating bloc confrontation,” he said before criticizing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg for “saber-rattling.” 

Zhang and other CCP leaders are hypercritical of NATO because they understand any similar security alliance in the Pacific could put a stop to their expansionism. In the last Cold War, NATO was a key element in America’s strategy to contain and eventually defeat Soviet communism. Chinese strategists have learned from the USSR’s mistakes and are seeking to advance a geopolitics of “multipolarity” to break out of containment.

For two years now, China has provided Russia with critical support for its invasion of Ukraine because the country wants to do the same thing to Taiwan. It started mere weeks before the invasion when CCP Chairman Xi Jinping pledged a “no-limits friendship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since then, Sino-Russian trade has exploded, smashing records in 2023. 

Read more at the Washington Examiner.